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. >> obviously there are serious criminal charges being pressed and the full force of the law obviously needs to play on that. the bigger issue about how a democracy fashion as proper conversation in fragmented societies is something that i think is very, very profound. but if you think about it, the gridlock you complain about, we can't get agreement in our country about building a third runway in heathrow airport, much less care about the elderly swrenchts the same problem. >> there is gridlock on syria, there is grid lock on the saving of the eu, there is gridlock at the national politics, and representative politics is facing a very, very buying set of charges, people feel they are not getting a proper say. now, there are reforms in every country that are going to have to be particular to that country, but there is a more generic issue about how in a world of multiaccess to information we have a proper conversation about how to take our countries forward. >> it is good to see you. >> very nice to see you. >> david miliband, former foreign minister and now a member of parliament in g
. >> obviously there are serious criminal charges being pressed and the full force of the law obviously needs to play on that. the bigger issue about how a democracy fashion as proper conversation in fragmented societies is something that i think is very, very profound. but if you think about it, the gridlock you complain about, we can't get agreement in our country about building a third runway in heathrow airport, much less care about the elderly swrenchts the same problem. >>...
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i would also likely to be that we refer to what it says in current law. rather than the default to business as usual. i would like them to stick to the current law. >> and what signal would you like to hear? >> we have really fallen into a horrible pattern of only making decisions with government shutdown, default and whatever would've happened if we would've would win over the debt limit, the super committee last year of having a process in place force congress to act, there was not any pain associated with it, so nothing happened. and now we have the fiscal cliff, which is the next crisis, it will aspirational enforce action. the thing that would be nice to see our leaders do, including who will be president, his switch back to the model in which policies made the leadership rather than just responding to a crisis. >> i somewhat disagree with some of the other answers in the sense that, well, i think that both candidates are also doing a lot of rhetoric. this is a really serious problem that we have to address. the criticism on the funny side if you are
i would also likely to be that we refer to what it says in current law. rather than the default to business as usual. i would like them to stick to the current law. >> and what signal would you like to hear? >> we have really fallen into a horrible pattern of only making decisions with government shutdown, default and whatever would've happened if we would've would win over the debt limit, the super committee last year of having a process in place force congress to act, there was...
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that it had voted to start an administrative law proceeding against the firm and april twenty fourth they filed it now even jones the story of them is that they are privately held company with about twenty employees and they started in one thousand nine hundred five and it is the only one of the nine nationally recognized rating agencies in america that gets paid by investors instead of by the issuers of securities so that's important to realize in the face of this financial collapse that was caused by the likes of bear stearns hiring rating agencies to bless their junk bonds essentially they're toxic collect collateralized debt obligations a mortgage backed securities with the aaa rating they paid these rating agencies to do this and even william cohen here in the bloomberg article notes that you know e-mails emerged saying that from one of these top rating agencies that are not the subject of an investigation by the f.c.c. that you know they would rate anything even if it were by a cow if they were paying it was would get a aaa rating and it was collateral to finance a lot of takeo
that it had voted to start an administrative law proceeding against the firm and april twenty fourth they filed it now even jones the story of them is that they are privately held company with about twenty employees and they started in one thousand nine hundred five and it is the only one of the nine nationally recognized rating agencies in america that gets paid by investors instead of by the issuers of securities so that's important to realize in the face of this financial collapse that was...
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this current law is not going to do that. it will continue to drive up health-care costs and the cost of insurance premiums. >> you have 90 seconds. >> let me tell you why -- why i have dedicated my life to the idea that everyone should have access to decent health care. there's a woman in connecticut by the name of betty bergman. she and her husband have worked hard all their lives. her husband was switching jobs and in between those two jobs, during the week he was unemployed, their son was diagnosed with cancer. when it would to get insurance on her husband's new plan, they would not provide for because he had a pre-existing condition. one week or two weeks of a lifetime and they didn't have insurance. you know what happened to the bergers? they lost everything. they lost their house, their savings, they became destitute simply because an illness happened at the wrong time. there is no repeal and replace plan. republicans in washington have voted to repeal this bill 33 times, and they have never offered any replacement. we
this current law is not going to do that. it will continue to drive up health-care costs and the cost of insurance premiums. >> you have 90 seconds. >> let me tell you why -- why i have dedicated my life to the idea that everyone should have access to decent health care. there's a woman in connecticut by the name of betty bergman. she and her husband have worked hard all their lives. her husband was switching jobs and in between those two jobs, during the week he was unemployed,...
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we speak with a senior fellow at the osu moritz college of law. and jay hollinger and robert hagan, as well as a look at young voters with representatives from the osu college republicans and college of democrats. >> see the vice presidential debates this thursday night, live on c-span, c-span radio, and c-span.or. next, q&a with morley safer. and then, remarks by british labor party leader ed miliband and the debate for the u.s. connecticut senate race. >> on the fifth or sixth day after being in office, we were sitting in the oval office and larry summers, the chief economic adviser said, mr. president, looking at this year's budget -- you are going to have a trillion dollar deficit. he had not done anything yet. >> we cannot keep looking at children in the i know when we are going to give them a diminished future because we are spending their money today. it is a very simple idea. mitt romney and i will bring it to washington. we have got to stop spending money we do not have. we must cut spending. we must get this balanced budget. we must get
we speak with a senior fellow at the osu moritz college of law. and jay hollinger and robert hagan, as well as a look at young voters with representatives from the osu college republicans and college of democrats. >> see the vice presidential debates this thursday night, live on c-span, c-span radio, and c-span.or. next, q&a with morley safer. and then, remarks by british labor party leader ed miliband and the debate for the u.s. connecticut senate race. >> on the fifth or sixth...
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no one person is above the law. >> but researcher and former i.r.a. member anthony mcintyre is as determined to protect the ar kiefz' confidentiality and others are to expose its secrets. >> i will go to jail to protect gerry adams as quickly as i would go to jail to protect any other person, individual person, possibly implicated as a result of this process. i think that's an ethical imperative. >> for helen mckendry, it is not about politics. not about legal battles. it is simply about closure for the death of the mother she loved. >> if we get the tapes back, this may put an end to everything. >> what do you think might be in those tapes? >> the truth. i think that's why they don't want us -- the people, you know, we do want the tapes to be released because the truth's on them. >> when you say they don't want them to be released, who do you mean? >> the i.r.a. and the people who were interviewed on the tapes. >> i think it's imperative that the tapes be handed over immediate immediately. >> but the mckendrys know what they may hear may be painful.
no one person is above the law. >> but researcher and former i.r.a. member anthony mcintyre is as determined to protect the ar kiefz' confidentiality and others are to expose its secrets. >> i will go to jail to protect gerry adams as quickly as i would go to jail to protect any other person, individual person, possibly implicated as a result of this process. i think that's an ethical imperative. >> for helen mckendry, it is not about politics. not about legal battles. it is...
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both laws are flawed in my view. i want your feedback because we all know that 80% of our medical issues are tied to personal behavior to if i'm a smoker, if i drink, my recovery rates or readmission rates are higher for somebody whoa gets up and drinks a green tea and eats oatmeal. there's a difference. hospitals and providers, if i was a provider, and i knew i was going to be penalized, i would profile to see what your lifestyle is like. if it didn't suit healthy lifestyles, i only want to treat the healthy people. >> host: thank you, john, does that come into play in the massachusetts law? >> guest: well, not really. i mean, the -- one of the concerns was that insurers or health care providers could pick and choose their patients, and that's why they said everybody has to have insurance so everybody has access to care. it won't work if we can pick and choose. that's the basis of the individual mandate. just a couple of notes on what john was saying. about personal behavior, yesterday i did an article for "the bost
both laws are flawed in my view. i want your feedback because we all know that 80% of our medical issues are tied to personal behavior to if i'm a smoker, if i drink, my recovery rates or readmission rates are higher for somebody whoa gets up and drinks a green tea and eats oatmeal. there's a difference. hospitals and providers, if i was a provider, and i knew i was going to be penalized, i would profile to see what your lifestyle is like. if it didn't suit healthy lifestyles, i only want to...